• Irene Allen, 87, died 5 days after being injured on Bury’s Walmersley Road.
• Her daughter remembered the “first lollipop lady”sunny “‘s personality.”
• Police are investigating and have appealed for any video from the crash scene.

Bury ex-lollipop lady Irene Allen who had advocated for safer roads was killed when she was struck by a van.

Irene Allen, 87, suffered a major injury on Bury’s Walmersley Road on December 6 and passed away five days later, according to Greater Manchester Police (GMP).

Her daughter Melanie paid tribute to the “first lollipop lady in Bury” whose “sunny personality” would be missed.

She noted the “tragic irony” that her mother had argued for safer crossings for children on the road in the 1960s.

Police are conducting an investigation and have asked anyone with video from the area before the crash on December 6 at around 11:15 GMT to contact them.

In a statement released by GMP, Ms Allen’s daughter described her mother – who had three grandchildren – as a “keen walker and Rawtenstall Cricket fan” and said she would leave behind “a whole community who miss her sunny personality”.

She added: “Always putting others before herself, in the mid-1960s Irene complained to Bury Council about the lack of safe crossings for school children across the busy Walmersley Road and became the newsworthy first lollipop lady in Bury.

“This tragic irony sits with us today.”

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